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The Rotary Club of
Edmonton Strathcona
 
Chartered 1974
e-Strathconian 
September 6, 2019
 
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Edmonton Strathcona
"The Friendly Club"
We meet Tuesdays at 12:15 PM
Woodvale Facility and Golf Clubhouse
4540 - 50 Street NW
Edmonton, AB  T6L 6B6
Canada
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2019-20 Board
 
 
L to R: Ellen Weber, Membership; Carin Jansen van Vuuren, Youth Service; Jim Peddie, President Elect; Donna Hutton, President; Vince Campbell, Immediate Past President; Audrey Martyn, Secretary; Graham Gilchrist, Treasurer.
Youth Exchange 2019-20
The Rotary Clubs of Edmonton Strathcona and Edmonton South are partnering in the Youth Exchange program for 2019-20.
 
Click on THIS LINK to open the photo album chronicling the adventures of our inbound student from Denmark, Celina Jensen and our outbound student Stephanie Leach being hosted in France.
 
Use this short URL to promote the album: https://tinyurl.com/YEX2019-20
 
 
Contacts:
 
RC Edmonton South, Lynne Fisher: 
 
RC Edmonton Strathcona, Carin Jansen van Vuuren, 
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News
Bruce Flesher

Bruce Flesher

Bob Sandercock has graciously submitted the following UPDATE:
 
Bruce is and has been in the hospital for two weeks.
I had talked to him when he first went in but he was discharged after one day.
I did not know he was readmitted a day later.
He is in good spirits but still needing tests and therapy.
He is turning 88 on Saturday!!
 
Bruce is now at the Glenrose rehab facility.
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Upcoming Events and Volunteer Opportunities
Canada Flag Program Online Sign-up and Payment
May 01, 2015 – Dec 31, 2019
 
YESS: Youth Empowerment – Starlight Casino
Starlight Casino West Edmonton
Sep 16, 2019 – Sep 17, 2019
 
Zone Conference, Niagara 2019
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Sep 19, 2019 – Sep 21, 2019
 
October Fest, RC St. Albert
Red Willow Place
Sep 21, 2019 6:00 PM
 
Eye Ball Gala Invitation-September 28, 2019
The Westin Hotel
Sep 28, 2019 6:00 PM
 
District 5370 Conference 2019
Grande Prairie
Oct 03, 2019 – Oct 05, 2019
 
Cabaret 2019
Oct 18, 2019
8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
 
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Stories
Lucy Hines, Royal Alberta Museum
 
This past week we heard from Lucy Hines, the Assistant Curator of Western Canadian History at the Royal Alberta Museum (RAM). Lucy’s major interest is in clothing and textiles.
 
She began with telling us about the currently running Viking exhibit at the RAM. They have a very good You Tube video that was used to introduce the exhibit when it opened in June. It can be viewed at YouTube.com, #yegvikings, The Vikings are Coming! She told us that the RAM is the largest museum in western Canada, with four hundred nineteen thousand square feet and thirteen curatorial programs. This includes two main galleries, a children’s museum, a bug gallery and a feature gallery, which currently houses the Viking exhibit.
 
Lucy said that the move to the new location in the heart of downtown from an outlying neighbourhood was an adjustment for the staff at the museum. They embraced this by partnering with the Mustard Seed to sponsor a Greeter program, whereby clients from the Mustard would be hired and trained as Greeters at the Museum. This program has been such a success for the Mustard Seed and the RAM that the greeters are now able to find other jobs and they need to train new staff.
 
 
 
The Museum began in 1967 and was renamed as the Royal Alberta Museum in 2005 when the Queen visited the museum. She said that public announcements regarding the Museum are a surprise to staff as well as the public, as they are not told in advance when something is happening. They found out when we did that a new building was in the works, and even did not know the opening date any sooner than we did. The new building opened in October of 2018 and saw forty-one thousand visitors in the first six days.
 
Lucy said that each gallery is set up as a collection of stories related to the individual exhibit items. She said that staff work to find out as much information as they can about the items in their care, and often have extensive documentation for each item. They try to keep the written descriptions of the items on display to a minimum so their documentation then has to be distilled down into a story of eighty words or less and labels of thirty words or less for exhibit purposes. The downtown galleries only house a small portion of their holdings, with the remainder stored at a special facility in Acheson.
Some of the galleries that she spoke about were the Natural History gallery with a display of the Edmontosaurus dinosaur skeleton and various large mammal skeletons, from animals that roamed the Alberta landscape many years ago. It also includes several dioramas of the large mammals as they would have looked at the time. Another gallery is the Mineral Gallery with its extensive collection of stones and minerals. The Human History gallery includes carved stones from through out Alberta, some of which are considered sacred to the indigenous people. One of these, the Manitou Stone, is placed in a location that can be visited without paying an entrance fee. This gallery also includes a recreated roasting pit filled with artefacts collected from Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump in southern Alberta. It also incudes displays on the impact of the fur trade on the indigenous people.
 
The Alberta Farms gallery includes the stories of the Northwest Mounted Police, established in 1873, the first drought in southern Alberta in the 1920’s and many more stories of the early settlers in Alberta, through to the depression years in the 1930’s. It also includes stories of the prisoner of war camps in the 1940’s in southern Alberta. These stories illustrate the courage and ingenuity of these people.
 
They also have displays on the stories of the Edmonton Grads, a women’s basketball team that continued playing long after they had graduated from high school. Another covers the Polio epidemic of 1953 and the impact it had on the life of a young girl from Morinville who had to learn to breathe again after spending a long time in an iron lung. Another display is about the GWG factory and the clothing made there over the years. They also have the original CFRN totem pole which was rescued after being discarded and was subsequently donated to the museum. They then did restoration work on it and had it repainted in it’s original colors by the grandson of the original sculptor.
 
It was a very interesting talk and I am sure it took many of us though remembrances from our personal experiences of life in Alberta. We would like to thank Lucy for this short introduction to the Museum and look forward to being able to visit it in the future.
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Karla Sarahi Letter from Project Amigo, Colima A.C.
 
Dear Godparents, Rotary Club of Edmonton Strathcona.
 
Hello, I hope you are very well, and thank you very much for continuing to support me in my studies, I thank you very much with all my heart and I will not let you down, I am really looking forward to my studies so that you feel fortunate and do not regret having supported me.
 
In this month I had a great time, they have already left me homework, I already entered the school again and starting the first week they left me homework, but for my part it is fine to be able to understand new topics that we will see , but in school I am doing very well until today. This semester does not look as difficult as I thought, but on the contrary, a little easier, because several of the teachers who give us I already know them and I know how it is their way of teaching and how to evaluate, but I know I have to really want it because it is my last year in the Baccalaureate, and I feel very excited because I am advancing a lot in my studies and I never imagined going as far as I am doing today, time passes quickly and little by little we are seeing How our life progresses.
 
In the same way I feel very good because most of my classmates are still studying and that is what makes me more happy, because they are noticed that they still want to continue studying, and they went on to those who I thought would not be able to pass, but what I see they really wanted to continue being with us this last year that we have left in the Baccalaureate.
 
 
We are already starting with new projects, work and activities in teams, and there is nothing left but to join teams to collaborate on our projects, what I like most is that we have our project underway, the theme "dressing a friend" We are already donating clothes and raising funds to compare new clothes that we need, we will put a bazaar and what we sell we will buy more new clothes, to continue with our project.
On vacation I had a good time, since on frequent days I went for a walk with my family, I went to the pools, the river, the Villa Ranch and many more sides, but I had a good time because I went out with my whole family and we lived together, or sometimes I spent it at home doing the homework or sometimes I went to visit my aunts, to talk for a while about how their day was or how they have been, I like to visit them because I have a good time, and we laugh at everything that happens or about something that comes up during the talk. I also went out with my cousins and we were doing pyjamas and we were having a good time, now I can't go out with my cousins because I already entered school and they leave me a lot of homework, just like I can't go talk to my aunts for the same thing, I'm just going to visit them when I am unoccupied.
My family is very well thanks to God, there we are all healthy, in my work I am doing very well, only that in the holidays I was not going to work because on those dates they are not holidays only I went on weekends, I continue working where I have talked to them, wanting it, because sometimes I need things and because the truth costs, I am almost going to celebrate the year of working in that place and maybe much more time.
I was very happy to tell you about what is happening and what I have lived since only this I can tell you and especially something so extensive. And just as it was on my first day of school.
 Good that God takes care of me very much, see you until next time, and now with more new things, Until next time!
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Cabaret 2019
 

Edmonton Comedy Festival presents:

Rotary Club of Edmonton Strathcona is proud to participate with the Edmonton Comedy Festival to raise funds that contribute to our End Polio Now campaign!
 
Tickets go on sale September 2nd – priced at $25.00 each
 
 
Our club has 20 tickets to sell for this fundraiser.
 
Rotary members can purchase online from our Clubrunner site. You can also purchase directly from us at our Tuesday meetings. See Audrey or Maggi
Cabaret Series
 
Friday, October 18th at 8:00pm at the Varscona Hotel on the PRODUCTION WORLD STAGE - RUN TIME: 90 MINUTES
 
Comedians tell us every year that the Varscona Hotel is their favorite venue so we brought it back. The Cabaret Series has a more casual feel to it with the audience up close and personal. We pack the room with local charity and not-for-profit groups looking to raise money for their organizations and then deliver a great comedy show. This one features L.A.’s Lisa Alvarado with Edmonton’s Mike Dambra and Vancouver’s Julie Kim hosted by the “Edmonton Comedy Festival On Tour” regular Paul Sveen.
 
Ron McCullough honoured

Ron McCullough

On behalf of the University of Alberta Alumni Association, we wanted to pass along information about the Alumni Awards, September 19 at which  Ronald Grant McCullough will be recognized with an Alumni Service Award for extraordinary volunteer service to the University of Alberta.
 
University of Alberta honours Ronald Grant McCullough
Community invited to celebrate at 25th annual Alumni Awards ceremony
 
The University of Alberta is pleased to announce that Ronald Grant McCullough, ’54 BSc(Ag) will receive an Alumni Service Award for extraordinary volunteer service to the University of Alberta. UAlberta President David H. Turpin will present Ron and 31 other alumni with their awards on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton.
 
The Alumni Service Award recognizes extraordinary volunteer contributions to the University of Alberta.
 
 
Ronald Grant McCullough, ’54 BSc(Ag)
Ron McCullough’s love of agriculture is matched by his passion for his faculty. Since graduating 65 years ago, McCullough has helped the Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences develop partnerships with industry and other post-secondary institutions. He suggested a “Centennial Club” to mark the faculty’s 100th anniversary, inspiring 100 donors to each give $100,000 to ALES. McCullough and his wife, Brenda, have sponsored the Lilian McCullough Chair in Breast Cancer Surgery. His career has bridged cattle ranching and public service, serving as Red Deer alderman, Alberta assistant commissioner of the Canadian Grain Commission and director general of the federal Department of Regional Economic Expansion. McCullough still nurtures the bonds of his beloved Class of ’54, publishing his “Saggie Aggies” newsletter and being a homecoming class booster since 1990. 
 
 
All community members are invited to celebrate Ron McCullough’s contributions at the 25th annual Alumni Awards ceremony:
 
Date:               Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019
Location:        Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium (11455 87 Ave), Edmonton, Alberta
Time:              7 p.m. ceremony with dessert reception to follow
Cost:               Free, register for tickets at uab.ca/aw2019
Dress:             Business attire
 
 
For more information, please contact the Office of Alumni Relations at 780-492-3224, toll free 1-800-661-2593 or alumni@ualberta.ca 
 
RC St. Albert October Fest
 
Guten tag!
 
You are cordially invited to join us at our second annual Oktoberfest event!
 
 
September 21, 6:00pm
Red Willow Place (7 Tache Street, St. Albert)
Tickets:  include first drink free, full traditional German meal, live band, fun activities, and free collectors mug: $65 for 15oz mug; $85 for 33oz mug (supplies limited)
 
For more details and to order tickets, please go to this link.
 
We hope to can join us for an über good time!
 
Mark
Two Ivey MBA students back for 2nd year after S. American tour, 6 June - 25 Aug. '59

what a story!!

 

We found our airplane 60 years later, just 40 km. south of Edmonton

Sixty years later, Class of ’60 MBA students Ron McCullough and Robin Eccles find an old friend.  

 

The story begins during a Marketing class in April 1959 with a note from Ron to Robin reading: “Let’s do something different on this summer  break!”

“Sure, what’ve you got in mind?” Robin wrote back.

“Let’s buy an aeroplane and tour South America!” -  Ron was a licensed pilot with over 2000 hours.

“You’ve got to be kidding.......... seriously?”

“Seriously!”

“OK, let’s do it!”

And so began an adventure which was to take them a total of 27,000 miles in 92 days down the Pacific coast of Central and South America; to cross the Andes via the Curico Pass 150 miles south of Santiago de Chile; across the Pampas to Buenos Aires; returning north through Brazil and the Caribbean across N. America to Ron’s home ranch headquarters near Red Deer, Alberta.

Ron had already identified a single-engine Piper aircraft which they bought for $4,200.00.  

A frantic three weeks followed, securing the charts, visas, flight permits and other paraphernalia they would need to overfly the countries they would be visiting.  Robin rushed through a crash course for his pilot’s license. 

Finally, on 6th June, Mrs. F.W.P. Jones, the Dean’s wife, christened the  aircraft “The Canada Goose”.  Fellow student Rev. Barry Brooks, MBA blessed it. And away they went to Laredo, Texas.   

In Laredo they had the back seats replaced by a large auxiliary fuel tank to give them the 1,000 miles range they would need in places where aircraft fuelling facilities were few and far between.

Of their many adventures, the closest call they had was the passage through the Curico Pass.  The charts showed the altitude as 12,000 ft.  The ceiling of the aircraft was about the same - leaving no margin for error with controls made sloppy by the thin air.  Members of the local flying club were adamant the altitude was less, and that The Canada Goose could get through quite safely. (“American charts...... gringos.......what do they know!”).  In fact the charts were accurate.  But by the greatest of luck there was a strong breeze off the Pacific blowing up the valley towards the summit. The updraft this created lifted the ‘plane sharply over the crest with 400 or 500 ft to spare and dropped it equally sharply down the other side.  Without that following wind, they would certainly have crashed in the high Andes - one of the bleakest places imaginable.

But their relief was soon tempered by the realisation that they were seriously off course.  The plan had been to follow a valley running northeast out of the mountains towards Mendoza where they intended to spend the night.  Instead, they were dropped into a valley which veered southeast towards flat grasslands without any features they could use for navigation.  They were lost. The only thing to be done was to keep going in the hope of finding a ranch or village where they could land before running out of fuel. Again fortune was on their side when they came across a well-equipped runway complex not marked on the charts.  They landed - only to be arrested and jailed for landing at a military airport without permission.

That incarceration was the first of three in which the Canadian Consular Service demonstrated its skill in getting their citizens out of trouble!

Over the years since that trip - it was once described as “Our Dream Flight to South America” in an article they sold at the time - Ron and Robin had wondered whatever happened to the little CANADA GOOSE aircraft that served them so well.  This year, sixty years later, another search discovered it near Edmonton - owned by commercial pilot Forrest Miller - extremely well maintained and still happily flying! 
Programs of Interest at the Jewish Senior Citizens Center
 
The JSCC (10052-117 St., Edmonton) is sponsoring several programs, talks and films that would be of interest to many of our members. Please call their office at 780-488-4241 for further information on cost and registration. Here is a selection of some of their offerings:
 
Wed
28 Aug
10-12 am
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Dr. Peter Sabo
Mon
09 Sep
16 Sep
10-12 am
Venezuela and Guatemala
Dr. Morris Maduro
Mon
09 Sep
16 Sep
23 Sep
1-3 pm
Israel: Past, Present and Future
Abe Silverman
Tues
17 Sep
1 pm
Forms of Tradition in Contemporary Spain, Josep Pujiula I Vila and his Great Labyrinth, Film
Sam Koplowicz
Tues
24 Sep
12 noon
Lunch and Learn, Traditional Jewish Melodies
Jack Goldberg
Wed
25 Sep
7 pm
Italian Opera Masterpieces
Edmonton Opera
Thurs
26 Sep
12 noon
Lunch and Learn, Traditions and Symbolism Associated with Rosh Hashana
Rabbi Mendy
Mon
28 Oct
04 Nov
11 Nov
10-12 noon
Politics: Edmonton and Alberta
Stephen Mandel
Tues
29 Oct – 03 Dec
1-3 pm
Solo Flight: The Concerto from Vivaldi to Ravel
Michael Thomas Roeder
Wed
30 Oct – 04 Dec
10-12 noon
Revolutionary Exploration: Rock’n Roll’s First Tumultuous Decade
D T Baker
Thurs
31 Oct – 05 Dec
1-3 pm
YEG’s Public Art
Kathleen Silverman
Tues
12 Nov
12 noon
Lunch and Learn, Geriatric Psychology and Dementia
Dr. Leon Kagan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Eye Ball Gala
 
 

Saturday September 28, 2019

Westin Hotel

10135 100 Street NW
Edmonton, Alberta

Our second annual Eyeball Gala will bring together ophthalmic specialists, surgeons, business and community leaders, and loyal friends to raise awareness and funds for the fight for sight and life-enhancing work of the Eye Institute of Alberta.

 
Please contact Audrey Martyn for more information.
audrey01@telus.net 
Link to District Membership Survey
A separate notice was dispatched earlier in reference to the district membership survey.
 
If you missed it or accidentally deleted it, here is the URL to the notice:
 
 
I believe our Friendly Club is healthy and vibrant, but we should be willing to share and not keep our success to ourselves. Please complete the survey at your earliest convenience.
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Sep 24, 2019
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Granholm, Hans
 
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Peddie, Jim
 
Oct 1 - SETUP
 
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McCullough, Brenda
 
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McCullough, Ron
 
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Jansen van Vuuren, Stephan
 
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September 14
 
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September 21
 
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September 23
 
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September 25
 
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September 26
 
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October 9
 
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October 20
 
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October 22
 
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October 4, 2016
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October 5, 2010
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October 10, 2018
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